Toussaint Adde

Toussaint Adde was a French pelt hunter in The Dakotas.

Biography
Toussaint Adde was from French Louisiana, and he became a fur trapper in the Upper Missouri River region, even after the Louisiana Purchase gave the territories to the United States. Adde did business with the Arikara tribe and sold them horses while buying pelts, but in 1823 he kidnapped the Arikara chief's daughter Powaqa. Adde raped Powaqa against a tree one day, the same day as he had the Pawnee tribesman Hikuc hanged as a "savage". Hikuc's friend Hugh Glass came upon the French camp and snuck up on Adde, giving Powaqa a knife to hold Adde against the same tree as he stole a horse from the French. Later, a hunter noticed that Toussaint was missing, so Glass shot the Frenchman while Powaqa cut Adde's scrotum off, and Adde's men were unable to pursue Glass.